Dyeing machine



E. S. HALTER.

DYEING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, 192!- 1,417,825

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DYEING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Iggy 30, 1922.

Application filed February 5, 1921. SeriaI No. 442,665.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL S. HALTER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson 1n the count of Passaic and State a l l and which rest on the sides of the vatthrough the liquor first one way along the vat, one after another, and then the other way, and after this has been done sufficiently to insure good permeation the skeins are changed so as to immerse the part of each which was last exposed. The ob ect of this invention is to provide a machine in the operation of which the known benefits and advantages of this hand treatment will be as far as possible retained and at the same time the great loss of time avoided which is incident in the hand operation to the shifting of the skeins being effected one after another instead of all at once.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure l is a side elevation of the improved machine;

Figure 2 is an end elevation, tion;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side elevation on a larger scale; and Figure l is a sectional view of a detail.

The vat is indicated at a.

On a base 7) is arranged a hydraulic lifting ram 0 the head of whose movable member c carries a horizontally elongated sup port cZ formed by spaced and rigidly connected channeled rails (Z. A horizontal series of parallel rotary shafts e are journaled in bearin s 7" on the top of the support (Z, shafts 6 being arranged transversely of said support and also of the vat a, parallel with one long side of which the support (Z is arranged.

Carriers f are pivoted on the shafts c, hanging pendent therefrom. Pivoted on each shaft is also a toothed segment g, which is pinned to the carrier, as at h.

The lower end of each carrier has suitably secured thereto a horizontal spindle z, and on this spindle is a skein support in the form of a reel 7' which in the present case is journaled on the spindle. The skeins A are adapted to be looped over the reels j as partly in secshown in Figure 1 so as to hang pendent therefrom, partly immersed in theliquor in the vat a.

Each carrier is adapted to be oscillated on the shaft 6 as an axis, and in the present case, there being a plurality of the carriers, 1 provide for moving them back and forth in synchrony, each always in the same direction as any other carrier. To this end, 7c is a. rack arranged. to slide on suitable projections Z extending from the support (Z, the teeth on the rack engaging the teeth of the segments 9 and one end of the rack preferably moving in a suitable guide m. lVhen the rack is reciprocatedthe carriers oscillate each past the perpendicular position (Figure 1) to right andleft thereof about as far as shown in Figure 3, so that the skein's A are swept through the liquor in order to effect permeation thereof by the liquor. Of course if the carriers are all oscillated in synchrony, that is, in constant parallelism where they are pivoted, as in the present case, a greater number can be accommodated in the same space than would otherwise be possible.

For changing the position of the slreins so that the part of each which is at times ex posed will at other times be immersed in the liquor means is provided for rotating the reels j on their spindles i. Gearing a, here in the form of a sprocket-and-chain connection, connects each shaft 6 with the corresponding reel j, so that the shaft is the driving member for the reel and rotation of the shaft causes rotation of the reel. The several shafts are equipped with gears 0 which intermesh with each other, so that rotation of any one causes rotation of all the others and consequently of the respective reels. The several shafts 0 may be rotated from a suitably driven drive shaft p which drives a counter shaft 9 through a worm and wormwheel connection 7, the counter shaft driving one of the shafts 6 through intermeshing gears s and t on shafts {I and e;

The rack is may be reciprocated' from the intergeared system of shafts c in any way, as by being provided with a transversely slotted head a in which plays a wrist pin o on a crank arm w secured to a counter shaft 00 which is suitably journaled parallel with one of the shafts e and is adapted to be rotated therefrom by the intermeshing gears y and s on these shafts w and 6 (see Figure 4). The speed of rotation of the reels may be varied the skeins and constant agitation or. mix-.

ing of the liquor but little withdrawal of the skeins therefrom at the end of each stroke,'which is important-where the liquor is (as in dyeing) hot, in that it avoids dissipation of the heat of the liquor; and all movements of the skeins take place with the least frictional action thereon, in which respect my present machine represents a still further advance in the art than is afi'orded by the machine patented to me (under my then name of Emil Schnurrenberger) by U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,350,740. In respect to the rotation of the reels I do not wish it to be understood that my invention is limitedto the rotation being continuous or always in the same direction, as in the ex ample herein given.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A machine for treating skeins in a liquor bath, including, with a vat, a carrier over the vat oscillatory laterally of the pendent skeins, and between limits of movement approximately equidistant from the surface of the bath, and a reel revoluble on the carrier on an approximately horizontal axis and over which the skeins are looped and from which they hang pendent.

2. A machine for treating skeins in a liquor bath, including, with a vat, a carrier over the vat oscillatory on a pivot laterally of the pendent slreins, and between limits of movement approximately equidistant from the surface of the bath, and a reel revoluble on the carrier on an approximately horizontal axis and over which the slreins are looped and from which they hang pendent.

3. In combination, with a vat, a pendent carrier pivotedover the vat and oscillatory laterally of the pendent skeins and between limits of movement approximately equidistant from the surface of the bath, and a reel revoluble on the lower part of said car rier on an approximately horizontal axis and over which the skeins are looped and from which they hang pendent.

4. In combination, with a vat, and sup porting means a rotary driving memlber journaled on an approximately horizontal axis, in the supporting means a. carrier over the vat oscillatory laterally of the pendent skeins, a reel revoluble on the carrier on an axis approximately parallel with the first axis, and over which the skeins are looped and from which they hang pendent, and

means to transmit rotary rotation from said member to the reel.

5. In combination, with a vat, a rotary driving member journaled on an approximately horizontal axis, a carrier pivoted concentrically with said member over thevat and I oscillatory laterally of the pendent skeins, a reel revoluble on said carrier on an axis approximately parallel with the firstnamedaxis and over which the skeins are looped and from whichthey hang pendent, and means to transmit rotary motion from said member to the reel.

6. In combination, with a vat, a carrier over the vat oscillatory laterally of the pendent skeins, a reel revoluble on the carrier on an approximately horizontal axis and over which the skeins are looped and from which they hang pendent, and separate means, respectively engaged with the carrier and reel, to oscillate the former and rotate the latter. 7

7. In combination, with a vat, a plurality of rotary intergeared'driving members journaled on approximately horizontal and parallel axes, a carrier pivoted concentrically with each of said members and over the vat and oscillatory laterally of the pendent skeins, a reel revoluble on each of said carriers on an axis'approximately parallel with the first-named axes and over which the skeins are respectively looped and from which they hangpendent, and means to transmit rotation from each member to the corresponding reel. i

8. In combinatioin with a vat and supporting means, pendent carriers pivoted in the supporting means on approximately parallel and horizontal axes and over the vat,- skein supports on the lower. parts of the respective carriers arranged approximately parallel with said axes and over which the skeins are looped and from which they hang pendent, and means to oscillate said carriers in synchrony each always in the same direction as the other and between limits of movement approximately equidistant from the surface of the bath. 7 V

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EMIL S. HALTER. 

